Category: Cost of Healthcare
Wednesday Links
- Are foreign trained doctors better than US trained doctors? I doubt it.
- Why we need health insurance companies.
- Other than Medicare Advantage, no health plan wants a sick person.
- Oz and RFK, Jr. clash over weight loss drugs.
- Only 9% of tax filers today itemize deductions, and they are almost all of them are millionaires and billionaires. So why not get rid of them and move to a flat tax?
Doctors Taught Little About Nutrition Even Though Half of Medical Costs are Diet-Related
Heart disease, cancer, obesity, diabetes and Alzheimer’s are the most expensive disease burdens in the United States, reports the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Tuesday Links
- Evidence that families’ decision to have children are influenced by which party wins the presidency.
- AHIP: two years of consecutive cuts to Medicare Advantage is why many seniors are now experiencing a reduction in coverage choices, higher costs and reduced benefits.
- Teen alcohol and drug use keeps declining. (Despite 24 states legalizing recreational cannabis.)
- Hispanic versus non-Hispanic White gaps were smaller in Medicare Advantage than in traditional Medicare for all outcomes: avoidable emergency department use, preventable hospitalizations, and thirty-day hospital readmissions. Results are mixed for White/Black comparisons.